Does anyone know how Monero's genesis block was created (and how I can generate a new one)?

Background information: I want to fork Monero for use as part of a school assignment (there are other things involved but this would be the core).

It's really easy with the Cryptonote 'reference' implementation, just build with no genesis_tx and then run the daemon with --print-genesis-tx but Monero seems to have been forked from Cryptonote before this was added.

I know I can easily build a private testnet (and even call it mainnet) and use the same genesis block but with a daemon on different ports etc but I don't think that will get the same level of appreciation from my professor (and I may as well just use the Cryptonote reference in that case).

Edit: tried to comply better with stack exchange guidelines (I'm new)

Does anyone know how Monero's genesis block was created (and how I can generate a new one)?

Background information: I want to fork Monero for use as part of a school assignment (there are other things involved but this would be the core).

It's really easy with the Cryptonote 'reference' implementation, just build with no genesis_tx and then run the daemon with --print-genesis-tx but Monero seems to have been forked from Cryptonote before this was added.

I know I can easily build a private testnet (and even call it mainnet) and use the same genesis block but with a daemon on different ports, etc. But I don't think that will get the same level of appreciation from my professor (and I may as well just use the Cryptonote reference in that case).

Edit: Tried to comply better with Stack Exchange guidelines (I'm new).

Does anyone know how Monero's genesis block was created? I want to fork Monero for use as part of a school assignment (there are other things involved but this would be the core). Maybe no one will actually use it but it's more for proof of concept than to really be used.

I was going to just use the Cryptonote 'reference' implementation but it would obviously be much nicer to use the Monero implementation instead if I can. It's really easy with the reference implementation, just build with no genesis_tx and then run the daemon with --print-genesis-tx but Monero seems to have been forked from Cryptonote before this was added.

I know I can easily build a private testnet (and even call it mainnet) and use the same genesis block but with a daemon on different ports etc but I don't think that will get the same level of appreciation from my professor (and I may as well just use the Cryptonote reference in that case).

Does anyone know how Monero's genesis block was created (and how I can generate a new one)?

Background information: I want to fork Monero for use as part of a school assignment (there are other things involved but this would be the core).

It's really easy with the Cryptonote 'reference' implementation, just build with no genesis_tx and then run the daemon with --print-genesis-tx but Monero seems to have been forked from Cryptonote before this was added.

I know I can easily build a private testnet (and even call it mainnet) and use the same genesis block but with a daemon on different ports etc but I don't think that will get the same level of appreciation from my professor (and I may as well just use the Cryptonote reference in that case).

Edit: tried to comply better with stack exchange guidelines (I'm new)